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Announcing a new service for Vinodiversity readers.

Wine maps are essential for planning your wine trip. So Vinodiversity is launching a new service to help you find some maps.

Publishers of maps, in hard or soft copy, are invited to submit details of their maps to this page

You can help out by submitting a map, or you can comment on the descriptions of the maps, or maybe just browse.

You can also see some recomended maps from around the world at Vinodiversity's map index

Mornington Peninsula

The Peninsula is just a short drive down the road from Melbourne. The scenery is spectacular and there are plenty of vinous treasures to be found. There are over a hundred wineries on the Peninsula and about half are using one or more alternative varieties - maily pinot gris.

If you a planning a trip, and spring is a great time to visit, check out Vinodiversity's page about the Mornington Peninsula.

A useful tool to enhance your wine touring is the Cellar Door Pass. For just $99 you get a regional map and DVD, six bottles of wine of your choice, valued up to a total of $150, and more benefits. You can even get free shipping back to an Australian Address for your wine.

Bendigo Winemakers festival

This event is held on Easter Sunday each year at the beautiful Castlemaine Gardens. This year it falls on April 8. Over 30 wineries will be offering tastings, there are always some good food choices available, a variety of entertainment and a very friendly atmosphere.

Bendigo Winemakers Festival

Crush Festival in the Adelaide Hills 11 March 2007

The Crush wine festival in the Adelaide Hills is the annual vintage and harvest festival for this innovative and varied region.

Download a program

More Australian wine events at this Squidoo

Heathcote Wine and Food Festival

Heathcote's annual wine and food festival is dubbed "Class in a Glass"

The organisers are on the ball. They have the program up on their website already. Take a lead from them and put the weekend of 6 and 7 of October in your diary.

For those not familiar with the region Heathcote is a Shirazophile's heaven. But there are plenty of wineries doing wonderful things with other varieties, including the some of the Rhones.

Class in a Glass : Heathcote Wine and Food Festival

Grampians Grape escape

The Grampians provide one of the most dramatic backdrops to a wine region in Australia. From the east the escarpments appear to suddenly rear up out of the Earth. The wine tradition here is unbroken since the gold era with the two icons of Best's and Seppelts Great Western both holding immense fascination for the serious historian of Australian wine.

The first weekend in May is time for this region to have some fun with the annual Grape Escape Wine and Food Festival. This festival aways takes it's food seriously; this year's celebrity chef is Tobie Puttock.

While you are visiting the region make some time to see how the bush in the National Park is recovering from the devastating fires of 2006.

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Canberra Wine Region

The Canberra wine region is centred on the township of Murrumbateman to the north of the national capital. The cool continental climate is suitable for growing a range of varieties and a few wineries are now stepping outside the traditional range and developing some interesting wines. Look out for some exciting Viognier, Pinot Gris, Tempranillo, Barbera and Sangiovese in this region.

If you are planning a visit to Canberra you can research flights, accommodation and car hire at Expedia Australia They do the hard work for you!

Vinodiversity's page on Canberra Wine Region

Finding that Cellar Door

My friend Matt Hayward has launched an incredibly useful website that maps cellar doors in all of Australia's Wine Regions. The maps are powered by Google maps. You can see a map view, a satellite view or a hybrid. These maps, and the satellite pictures are amazing. You can zoom in see fine details, or you can get an overview of the region.

The data for the 2500 or so wineries in Australia is still being loaded, wineries are encouraged to register the details of their location.

The user interface is super simple. You just select a region, click and a zoomable map and list of wineries comes up. What better tool is there for you to plan your next wine trip?


Australian Wine Region Maps

Barossa Vintage Festival

The longest and oldest wine event in Australia. The program offers wine, fun, food, music, wine, church services, heritage, markets, scarecrows, an air show, golf, grape stomping and even more wine.

Join in the fun.

Plan your trip with Expedia.com.au!


More details @ Barossa Vintage Festival Web page

Geelong Wine Region

The Geelong Region is the next to be featured in Victorian Regional Wine Showcase Series held in Federation Square in Melbourne.

Pinot gris/grigio is certainly the leading alternative varietal wine in the Geelong region, reflecting the coolish climate and perhaps the influence of the Mornington Peninsula just across the bay.


*See the full 2007 program of Wine Showcases here

*Vinodiversity's page on the Geelong Wine Region

Macedon Ranges Wine Region

It's not all Pinot noir and Chardonnay in this cool climate region. There are quite a few wineries doing wonderful things with Gewurztraminer, and Pinot gris is starting to show promise here as well. Vinodiversity's view of the Macedon Ranges Wine Region

Yarra Valley Alternative Varieties

The next Regional Wine Showcase to held in Fed square Melbourne will be the Yarra Valley region. Although this region is dominated by the use of classic varieties Pinot Noir and Chardonnay bcked up by Cabernet sauvignon, shiraz, Merlot and Sauvignon blanc, there are quite a few wineries using alternative varieties.

In fact when I recently updated my Yarra Valley page I noted that over 40 wineries are doing something interesting variety wise. There are quite few with pinot gris, the rhone white varieties and a couple with Italian varieties.

See what you think

Vinodiversity's page on the yarra Valley

Orange Wine Region

All of the Orange Wine Region in New South Wales is above the 600 metre contour line, hence it enjoys a cool climate. It is one of the most promising wine regions in the State.

Vinodiversity article on the Orange Wine Region

Upper Goulburn Wine Region

Each month the Victorian Regional Wine Showcase features a different Victorian Region. This month it is the turn of the Goulburn & Upper Goulburn Region, Strathbogie Ranges & Nagambie Lakes Regions.

The showcase is a great way to 'visit' the cellar door of a couple of dozen wineries in just a few hours.

Wednesday and Thursday 1 & 2 November. 4-30pm to 8-30pm

See you there!

You can see the details and get a discounted tasting ticket from the Fed Square website


Check outthe Vinodiversity view of the Upper Goulburn Wine region

Rutherglen wine region

September's Victorian Wine Showcase featured the North eastern Victorian wine region, and Rutherglen was a prominent among them. It is a delightful mix of old wineries dating back to the Gold Era of the Nineteenth Century to modern classy outfits. Ther are some beutiful wines coming out of this region.

See what vinodiversity says

Vinodiversity's view of the Rutherglen wine region

Pyrenees Wine Region

I have just returned from a trip to the Grampians and the Pyrenees wine regions. They make some impressive reds out there. It seems that both Tempranillo and Sangiovese are both being given extensive trials by a few of the wineries in the Pyrenees. While it is early days yet, my guess is that we can look forward to some interesting reds from these varieties in the near future.

Pyrennes Wine Region

Adelaide Hills Wine Region

This wine region overlooking the city of Adelaide has a multitude of microclimates which are now being exploited by wine producers in search of sites appropriate for alternative grape varieties. There are now at least 29 wineries in this region who are thinking outside the square.

Adelaide Hills Wine Region

Travelling in the Granite Belt

I have just left Queensland after an interesting few days in the Granite belt region. There is a healthy alternative varietals scene there that you can see on my granite belt page. We visited Biorean, Ridgemill Estate, Kominos, Golden Grove, Granite Ridge, Symphony Hill and Hidden Creek. From A few tatsings it seems that Tempranillo is a variety with a future in the region. The Tannat at Biorrean was also very impressive.

We stayed in cabins at Ridgemill Estate. These were very cosy especially on the frosty mornings which are common in this region in the Autumn and winter

Clare Valley Gourmet Weekend 6 and 7 May 2006

This celebration of first class food and wine is truly a lavish 'spread' - spread throughout the wineries, restaurants and country pubs of idyllic Clare Valley, spread across a region famous for historic villages, bucolic vistas and rural folk who still know the meaning of a harvest festival.
Details of the Gourmet Weekend!

Mornington Peninsula Wine Region

The Mornington Peninsula, just south of Melbourne is the home of Pinot gris/gigio in Australia. There are plenty of wineries using PG and quite a few other alternative varieties.


Mornington Peninsula Wine Region